Professor Charlie Huveneers
Professor
College of Science and Engineering
Professor Charlie Huveneers is the Director of Flinders University Marine and Coastal Research Consortium and leads the Southern Shark Ecology Group (SSEG). The SSEG research focuses on the ecology and population status of sharks and rays, as well as assessments of their vulnerability, interactions with humans, and related public perception. After Charlie obtained is PhD in 2007, he started co-running the Animal Tracking Facility of the Integrated Marine Observing System program (IMOS), during which he created a national network of receivers to track the movements of sharks and fishes. He moved to South Australia in 2009 to join MISA through a joint position between SARDI – Aquatic Sciences and Flinders University as a shark ecologist. He has been a full-time academic at Flinders University since 2014, with his current research focusing on positive and negative shark-human interactions, providing empirical information to minimise the effects of wildlife tourism and test the efficacy of shark bite mitigation measures.
2003 - 2007: PhD (Environmental Science)
Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
The ecology and biology of wobbegong sharks (genus Orectolobus) in relation to the commercial fishery in New South Wales, Australia
1999 - 2002 BSc (Hons.) Oceanography with Marine Biology
University of Southampton (England)
- 2024, Finalist to the South Australia Science and Innovation Excellence Award (Excellence in Science and Industry Collaboration category)
- 2023, Winner of the Flinders College of Science and Engineering Research Impact and Engagement Award
- 2022, Finalist to the South Australia Science and Innovation Excellence Award (Excellence in Science and Industry Collaboration category)
- 2022, Finalist to Flinders College of Science and Engineering Research Impact and Engagement Award
- 2011, Vice-Chancellor Early Career Research Award
- 2010, South Australian Young Tall Poppy Finalist
- 2009, Unsung Hero of the year 2009
- IMOS Animal Tracking Facility Scientific Committee member (2007 - ongoing)
- IMOS Animal Tracking Facility data committee chair (2009 - ongoing)
- IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group member (2010 - ongoing)
- Shark Resource Assessment Group scientific member (2016 - ongoing)
- Associate Editor of:
- Scientific Reports
- Frontiers in Marine Science
- Endangered Species Research
- Wildlife Research
- Biology and Ecology of Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras)
- Shark conservation
- Fisheries sciences
- Acoustic telemetry
- Behavioural ecology
Professional and community services includes:
- Chair of Australian National Environment Science Program (NESP) Regional Research User Group and Research Reference Committee
- Lead organiser of White Sharks Global (first white shark focused international conference in 13 years)
- Minister-appointed scientific member of Reunion Island's shark control program committee
- Invited as expert to the NSW Shark Summit (2015) and Qld DAF Shark Control Program Scientific Committee
- Reviewer for >30 scientific journals and funding agencies, including ARC, NOAA Federal funding (USA), Foundation for Science and Technology - Minister for the Education and Science (Portugal).
- Member of the scientific advisory board for the Ministry of the Environment regarding network of marine parks, South Australia, 2009-2014
- Provide expert scientific advice to PIRSA related to shark bite mitigation measures
- Popular articles to 26 different magazines and non-governmental agencies (e.g., Nature Conservation Council and Council Conservation of South Australia)
- Public talks to audiences such as scuba-diving clubs, high school students, Rotary clubs, and aquarium visitors.
- Regular interviews to magazine, radio, and television nationally (e.g, ABC radio and television, Channel 7, 9, and 10, the Manly Daily, The Age, The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Sydney Morning Herald, The Advertiser), and internationally (i.e, Canada, Italy, Hawaii, England, Belgium).
- Featured in various documentaries for National Geographic, ABC, BBC, Discovery, Arte, France 5, Love Nature
- Biology
- Ecology
- Fish
- Sharks and rays
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